So, after getting all smug about nailing my Goodreads reading challenge for the year (because, apparently, I now live a lifestyle where 30 books in a year genuinely is a challenge), this month my reading…

This review originally appeared on The Arts Desk. In “Look What You Made Me Do”, the tabloid-level diss track that heralded the arrival of Taylor Swift’s sixth album, the one-time darling of Nashville declares the…

There’s a timeline in which Rosie Bans would have been expected to fade into the background. A fiery singer-songwriter with the voice of a Prohibition-era jazz chanteuse, Bans’ prodigious musical talent has allowed her to…

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Last Year’s Girl... is all the things a great blog should be: well-written and passionate, with personal accounts sitting alongside wide-appeal journalism.
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If only your scope of musical interest stretched as far as your mouth... Do us a favour and stop writing about music, keep writing the man-hating.
- Bruce Hotchkies, Scottish New Music Awards (2011-2012)